Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era".He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system. Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, theHamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology fromPresident Clinton in 1999.
from the beginning, c was invented to be useful to allow busy programmers to get things done because c is such a powerful,dominant ans supple language.
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Facts about C
- C was invented to write an operating system called UNIX.
- C is a successor of B language which was introduced around 1970
- The language was formalized in 1988 by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI).
- The UNIX OS was totally written in C by 1973.
- Today C is the most widely used and popular System Programming Language.
- Most of the state-of-the-art softwares have been implemented using C.
- Today's most popular Linux OS and RBDMS MySQL have been written in C.
Why to use C?
C was initially used for system development work, in particular the programs that make-up the operating system. C was adopted as a system development language because it produces code that runs nearly as fast as code written in assembly language. Some examples of the use of C might be:
- Operating Systems
- Language Compilers
- Assemblers
- Text Editors
- Print Spoolers
- Network Drivers
- Modern Programs
- Databases
- Language Interpreters
- Utilities
make it easy
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